Malergion
Complex pain
Shut up DW! Cobain had long hair and he was cute. That makes him amazing!!!!! Such clear lyrics. Such a refined message....ah hell, I don't understand it...such a noble soul!
Not lawyers... a shotgun
Well, I agree that it snowballed out of proportion, and Kurt wasn't the demigod that the media made him out to be.
But he had a solution for that.
Oh, I do too.
I just think that they get more shit than they deserve. It's not like they're the 90's Jonas Brothers (death to the Jonas Brothers) or Miley Cyrus (death to Miley Cyrus) or Justin Beiber (death to Justin Beiber).
They were a band. That got really big. That's all.
Not a corporate manufactured sugar pop outfit. They wrote damn fine songs, kicked ass live, and were rewarded for it--albiet maybe a little too much.
And metal isn't dead, and never will be, as long as jamokes like guru are around!
Yeah, Nirvana got way more shit than they deserved, but that's what happens when you're a band who changes the face of music forever.
Honestly, I think the 90's was the greatest decade in the past 30 years. While there certainly were several overrated bands who got uber famous, it gave music the kick in the ass it needed. It brought "music" back into making music...people were once again making music because they loved to make music, not because they wanted to become famous...for the most part, at least.
Well I still like Nirvana...but THEY weren't the ones who first cut through the cheesy hair metal, and I'm pretty sick of people saying they were groundbreaking because they simply jumped on the bandwagon that was already established. Soundgarden, The Melvins, Mother Love Bone, and a whole slew of others were doing it better than Nirvana before there WAS Nirvana. Nirvana became so hugely famous because they were more tolerable with radio stations. They wrote catchy, poppy tunes with a lot of angst that resonated with the masses because the masses didn't even know who the other Seattle bands were at the time. They became famous because they wrote catchy, simple songs that were easy to digest...that's it.
They didn't blow the doors wide open on the Seattle grunge scene, they didn't do anything better than anyone else, they weren't extremely prolific and amazing...they just wrote some cool songs and it just snowballed because of heavy radio play and MTV. Nevermind was a great album, but most everything before and after that album sucked.
Nirvana was blown way out of proportion while much better bands were left out to dry. Musicianship-wise, Dave Grohl is an excellent drummer and Krist Novaselic is an average at best bassist...I've seen him play and met him...he's OK and that's about it. Kurt was no great musician but he had a certain type of voice and guitar style that matched...they sounded horrible but together worked for some reason.
And then they blew up and people lost their shit over a few decent pop songs, hailing them as the next Rolling Stones, Beatles, Ramones, etc., and people to this day are still exaggerating about that band. I just don't see it.
Does anyone else think that Nirvana doesn't sound like Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Smashing Pumpkins, Mother Love Bone, Janes Addiction etc? Am I alone? That whole "Alice in Chains, The Melvins, Pearl Jam were playing the sound better and before Nirvana" is total rat shit. Nirvana was way more energetic, less 'sludgy' and definitely had less metal undertones and more alternative rock than those bands. If you play Pearl Jam and Nirvana every other song, back to back...it's clear as daylight that the two have little in common other than drop D tuning, same city, simplicity, emotional singing.